Originally Published in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, February-March 2016. This is not a review of Marvel’s Jessica Jones miniseries on Netflix. It begins there but heads other places. If you insist, I will establish right away that the comic book it comes from, Alias, is one of my all-time favorites, that I think the miniseries […]
Taking a necessary break from watching a movie I know practically by heart, Billy Wilder’s DOUBLE INDEMNITY. (Had stuff to do that needed to be done right away.) And before I get back to it, this observation, complete with SPOILER WARNING for what I hope will be the very few of you who haven’t encountered […]
On the subject of Lovecraft, to which we keep returning: My own take is that he was supremely talented at describing dread and disgust and horrifically deficient in describing anything else; his admitted and proud disinterest in people as subjects of fiction shows in his work and renders the whole remote and soulless. His racism, […]